( 2026:JHHC:21034 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 3862 of 2026 Ajay Saw @ Fantoos Saw, aged about 46 years, son of late Badri Saw, resident of village Tudhamu, P.S. Chandwa, P.O. Chandwa, District-Latehar, Pin Code-829203, State-Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Sunil Kumar Upadhyay, Advocate For the State : Mr. Praful Jojo, A.P.P. For the Informant : Mr. Vishnu Prabhakar Pathak, Advocate 02/ 17.07.2026: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State and learned counsel for the informant. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Chandwa P.S. Case No. 108 of 2026, registered under sections 126(2), 115(2), 117(2) and 109 of BNS, 2023, pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Latehar. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case and allegations are made of pelting stones upon the informant. He next submits that injury has been found to be simple. He next submits that there are case and counter case between the parties for the same incident. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsels for the State and informant jointly oppose the prayer and submit that allegations are there of pelting stones upon the informant pursuant to the informant has received injury. 5. Considering that allegations are there of pelting stones however the injury has been found to be simple. There are case and counter case between the parties for the same incident. It has been pointed out that petitioner is having criminal antecedent of the period 2019-2022 however in ( 2026:JHHC:21034 ) one of the case the petitioner has been acquitted and in other two cases he is on bail. The criminal antecedent cannot be a sole ground of either rejecting or granting anticipatory or regular bail. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Latehar, in connection with Chandwa P.S. Case No. 108 of 2026, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.17.07.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-